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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mondio" data-source="post: 781084" data-attributes="member: 10441">we can blame any or all of them.  I blame circumstances.  Capers was a pretty successful coach.  I think he coached in a way that MM liked.  He was cerebral and had a defense that could create turnovers for our offense to get more opportunities.  He didn't always have bad defenses and I don't think rankings tell the entire story either as yards and a few FG's were ok to give up in order to take their shots at turnovers a few times a game.  Plus with our own explosive offense, it tends to lead to the other team putting up better offensive "numbers" in playing catch up.  I think it skews total numbers, but at this point I don't really care.  all of that is in the past.  My point, Capers wasn't always what most fans have an impression of him being the past 2-3 seasons.  anway, without rehashing everything because I've already started to ramble.  I think it was just a matter of simple circumstances.  Capers is not some scrub.  TT didn't just draft scrubs, MM is a good headcoach.  '14 was a tipping point.  Stacked team, masterful defense for 55 minutes.  Complete collapse and a bunch of flukey stuff happened.  Capers?  Players? MM?  blame who you want.  I put it mostly on the players.  '15 our defense was  actually pretty decent while the offense floundered with WR and offensive line woes all season.  We then lost some pretty good players, had a gutting of a very important position another year had some guys playing out of position because of it.  One season would have been completely unfair IMO to judge a DC on because of all the injuries and he could have been fired after that season. They gave him another year to turn it around.  It ended up being the same old confusion on that side of the ball and he was let go.  The only thing that makes this easy to say now is retrospect.  I don't think it was needing to spend a few more dollars that kept him around.  I don't think Ted was afraid to fire an underperforming coach over his headcoaches head after giving the HC the ability to hire and fire his own staff.  I don't think Murphy is the type of guy to micromanage everyone underneath him or fire guys when he doesn't get his way.  All probably had a say, and they all probably reached a consensus.  They probably considered overall team philosphy, then looked at past peformance and capability, available players and outside influences and made the decision.  Like I said, I don't care much about the overall rankings.  and this team had a pretty good defense as recently as '15.  They kept us in games while the offense struggled mightily.  Then all sorts of weird stuff happened to that side of the ball.  to not think all that flux and injury is going to affect a unit is silly.</blockquote>

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